cjd
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Post by cjd on Mar 25, 2015 17:18:09 GMT
A note following Gibbons' listing of Natal booklets says that SB2 had the first stamp on the first pane overprinted 'Not For Use' to apply the resulting extra penny to the cost of producing the booklet. The booklet pane is given a number in SG, 147a, but the stamp itself is not separately listed. Scott lists but does not price a pane of 5 stamps and 1 label as #102b. I found one among a dealer's offerings as "unknown test stamp."  Didn't think I would ever run across a single without searching one out... |
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Post by Philatarium on Mar 25, 2015 18:22:00 GMT
Scott lists but does not price a pane of 5 stamps and 1 label as #102b. I just checked the Scott 2015 Classic Specialized, and I'm happy to report that they do now price the pane. 102b -- booklet pane of 5 + 1 label: mint $500.00 " complete booklet of 5 panes of 102b: mint $3500.00 For comparison, 102a -- booklet pane of 6: mint $550.00 " complete booklet of 5 panes of 102a: mint $3500.00 And a single mint of 102 itself is $11.00. (used $0.25) No mention of a value for the individual label. Hope that helps a little bit. -- Dave |
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Post by cjd on Mar 26, 2015 15:39:26 GMT
I am pretty sure a complete booklet would be one 102b and four 102a panes. Pretty sure there cannot be booklet of five panes of one, or the other. Since there should be four 102a panes for every 102b pane, I'm surprised at what they've done with pricing.
Perhaps the "interesting" pane was saved in greater numbers than the plain-vanilla pane?
For anyone who occasionally wonders about pence and shilling values, this is a good example. Five panes of six 1d stamps would be 30d. A shilling was twelve pence (12d), so thirty pence would be 2 shillings and six pence, which is a nice round number for sales. (Often written as 2/6, this was also known as a half crown, and there was a half-crown coin at the time.)
If 1d was going to be applied to the cost of producing the booklet, you void one stamp, and still sell the booklet for 30d/2sh6d/half crown.
The readers who grew up with that system will roll their eyes at my loopy explanation, but it might help someone like me, who grew up with decimal currency.
Just to finish off the examples for stamp collectors, a crown was five shillings, and there were four crowns in a pound. So this booklet in question sold for an eighth of a pound. 240 pence in a pound.
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